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The Most Effective Method for Achieving Detachment

When one works to develop the consciousness of the witness, Purusha, observing the Nature, Prakriti the progress comes generally over time with repeated persistent and patient effort. Consider for a moment going through one’s own life observing but not reacting internally. If we observe even a little bit, we see that we are constantly being drawn into response, and even if we refrain from responding outwardly, we still react inwardly.

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Spiritual Growth

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Comparing Current General State of Human Consciousness With More Evolved States, Part 5 Identification With the Exte al Nature Versus Poise of Detachment

We generally experience ourselves as our body, life and mind. When we injure our body, we say that we have hurt ourselves. When there are hunger pangs, we say that we are hungry. When we experience an emotion, we say that we have become angry, or are in love, or are feeling lonely or depressed. Rene Descartes famously stated “I think, therefore I am”, showing his sense that he was identified with his mental consciousness. When the body dies, we believe that we die.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Faith In and Receptivity to the Guru

In Essays on the Gita, Sri Aurobindo notes that every scripture has both a ‘temporal’ and an ‘ete al’ aspect. The temporal aspect is transitory, changes from time to time and from culture to culture, based on the societal background within which the scripture has been produced. The knowledge gained from this aspect is subject to modification. The ete al aspect represents knowledge that transcends the specific time and place within which it was produced, and remains valid regardless of cultural background or societal norms.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Reading as a Spiritual Practice and Its Limitations

While Sri Aurobindo created an enormous body of written materials regarding the integral yoga, the development of the next phase of consciousness growth in the earth-evolution, he also clearly recognized that there are limits to how much reading can aid the spiritual seeker.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Spiritual Experiences Are Real

For the individual who has a spiritual experience, one of the most notable characteristics is the absolute and incontrovertible ‘reality’ of the experience. Yet, people who live primarily in the surface consciousness tend to treat such experiences, when related, as somehow less real or even unreal, compared to the experience of the outer world. Terms such as dream, hallucination, or delusion frequently are used, and in many cases, the person having such inner experiences is lumped in with those who require some form of counseling or mental health support.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Bedrock of Resistance to Change in Human Nature

When we look at the working of Nature, we see ample evidence of inbred habits of action and reaction, which we call ‘instinct’ in the world of animals, and which we call the laws of physics in the material world. Consider how it is possible, for instance, that Monarch butterflies carry out a multi-thousand mile migration across four generations of butterflies. There are no schools for butterflies to learn what they need to do in the next generation, so we cannot call thus “nurture” — it is inbred into their genetic instructions.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Developing Harmonious Relationships with Close Family, Friends and Associates

Even among those closest to one another, there remain differences of habit and temperament. Issues of personal grooming, dietary choices, choices in music or other media interactions, time commitments, interactions about caring for the common shared space all work to create minor daily irritations or even conflicts. Add to this interpersonal differences in intimate relationships and comfort within one’s own personal space and it is easy to see that achieving and maintaining harmony in relationships requires both constant awareness and a willingness to accept differences with equanimity.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Success: Its Meaning, Measure and Ultimate Significance in the Supramental Transformation of Consciousness

We frequently identify success, as defined by our minds, as an indicator of divine Grace; yet this is driven in many cases by the ego, not by the larger viewpoint of the Divine. In a complex world that is undergoing evolutionary transformation driven by the manifestation of a new power of consciousness, the issue does not come down to immediate success of any particular line of action, but of how the total evolutionary process is taking up and addressing the obstacles, issues, conce s and needs that stand in the way of the manifestation.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Understanding the Inner Being

As long as we remain on the surface of our being, and rely entirely on the physical senses and the nervous system of the vital being and the mental processes focused on these outer sensations, actions and phenomena, the inner depths of our being remain hidden from us, occult, and not quite treated as real.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Becoming Aware of the Inner Being and Taking Up the Spiritual Life

For most people, their lives are focused on their exte al relationships, their own individual self-satisfaction and their ability to manipulate their social and environmental reality to achieve objectives set by their ego-personality. Many do not have any meaningful relationship to any inner being or inner existence, and, if they are not solely occupied with survival, they spend considerable time and focus on entertainment and satisfying desires. Thinkers, writers, sages, and artists throughout history have reflected on this superficial existence and the limitations of it.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Divine Consciousness

The Divine Consciousness encompasses both a vast peace which can fill the being and bring the seeker to a realisation that all the exte al life details, about which so much worry and fretting take place, are relatively inconsequential in the larger scheme of things. When the peace descends, the seeker may feel separate from the action of the world, including his own individual mind-life-body as part of that exte al action. This is the experience that the Sankhya defines and which Sri Aurobindo describes as the separation of Purusha and Prakriti.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Addressing the Difficulties of the Transformation of the Vital Nature

To effectuate a total transformation of the mind-life-body and its action in the world, it is necessary for the seeker to address and solve the issue of the vital being, its desires, and the ego-standpoint that it fosters and maintains.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Desire and True Need for a Yogic Practitioner

Today’s civilisation is fixated on possession and ownership of material things, and people are generally respected and honored for their ability to accumulate resources. This has led to extreme inequality in terms of the resources available for use by people on the planet, as a very small number of highly successful (in a material sense) people control ever-larger resources, while vast numbers of people go hungry or live a life of privation and suffering from physical want. The entire culture is permeated with suggestions, images and pressure to acquire and ‘own” more and more.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Exploring the Nature of the Dream State

Dreams have kept researchers awake for the entire history of mankind. Where do dreams come from? Of what substance are they made? What significance do they have? The ancient Greek culture had oracles who interpreted dreams. The Old Testament of the Bible recounts the rise of Joseph in the land of Egypt through his ability to interpret the dreams of the Pharoah, and help the land prepare during seven years of plenty for a following seven years of drought.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Ascent of Consciousness and the Descent of the Higher Consciousness Into Mind-Life-Body

Spiritual practices that focus on liberation from the nature attempt to achieve that liberation through abandonment of the exte al life and a one-pointed concentration on the spiritual consciousness. The integral Yoga has an additional goal of bringing the higher spiritual forces and knowledge, power, love and bliss into the life and transforming each element in the light of this new higher action. This comes about through a dual action of ascent and descent.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Concentration Is Not the Same As Meditation

There is considerable confusion about meditation and concentration. They are, however, not quite the same. Achieving a meditative state inwardly can aid in the development of concentration. Certain forms of meditation utilize techniques that lead to concentration. Yet meditation can be calm, relaxed and peaceful without being a concentrated state of awareness that focuses on a single point, which is the definition of concentration. It can be ‘blank’ of ‘content’. Certain forms of meditation let the mind rest quietly in a state of vast general awareness, which is not ‘concentration’.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

How to Recognise the Manifestation of the Divine Presence in the Human Individual

How do we recognise the Divine manifesting through an individual human being? Arjuna poses a similar question in the Bhagavad Gita, when he asks how to recognise the enlightened man. How does he walk, how does he dress, what does he eat, how does he act? Sri Krishna reminds Arjuna that the realised soul cannot be recognised by outer forms, but only by the inner spiritual consciousness at work in the individual. The needs of the outer world change and the individual must act according to those needs.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Peace in the Body’s Cells Can Cure Illness

When we conjure up, in our minds, the idea of peace, we tend to give it a form of inaction, a ‘negative’ status. Similarly, peace to our vital nature is the absence of excitement or any form of energetic expression. For the body, we believe peace is a state of quietness that does not ‘do’ anything.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Three Parts of the Outer Being: Mental, Vital and Physical

Once an individual recognises that there are three separate foundations of consciousness in the outer being, and that they are not simply part of one unified awareness, it becomes much easier to untangle the numerous strands of pressure internally and understand how to address and deal with the inner issues, conflicts, obstructions and difficulties. How many people struggle with issues such as kicking an addiction, or losing weight, only to blame themselves for a lack of will-power, when in fact it is not the will-power of the mind that is the issue, but some other physical or vital cause.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Opening the Being to the Divine Power and Presence

A yoga that focuses on opening to a new power of consciousness beyond the mind, and that does not abandon life, but acts to transform it, has to address the issues of the limitations embedded in the existing ‘status quo’ of mind-life-body. The limitations inherent in the operations of these elements circumscribe the progress. In order to transcend the framework within which we operate, we must find a way to access the next power of consciousness and allow it to function and overcome or modify these limitations.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Process of the Supramental Manifestation and Its Integration into Life on Earth

The consciousness of Matter could not anticipate or dream of the manifestation of the Life-principle, and the vital living plant and animal consciousness could not anticipate the advent and impact of the mental consciousness. Similarly, the mental consciousness cannot truly understand nor anticipate the appearance of a being organised under a principle of consciousness so far beyond the mental, as the mental is beyond that of the plant and animal stage of consciousness.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Facing and Overcoming Self-Doubt and Internal Criticism

As the spiritual seeker develops the internal witness awareness, viewing the actions and reactions of the various parts of the being, it is frequently noted that the closeness of the view leads the aspirant to become overly critical of one’s own flaws, weaknesses, habits etc. This same type of perspective leads to the proverb in the outer life that ‘the grass is always greener on the other side of the street’. Distance provides more perspective and one does not fixate so intensely on the flaws.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Pain and Suffering: the Play of the Gunas and the Role of the Vital Nature

There is a part of the vital nature which takes a perverse pleasure in flaunting illnesses, pain and suffering publicly to collect the sympathy of friends and acquaintances. These things become the topic of conversation and extensive gossip. Thus, the vital nature may prolong, accentuate or even call in various forms of suffering in order to carry out a form of ‘self-aggrandisement”.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Spiritual Realisation Is Not the Same as Supramental Transformation

The supramental transformation involves the manifestation in the world of the next stage of consciousness beyond the mental level. Just as the evolution of mind brought about enormous changes in life on earth, the evolution of supermind will have a transformative effect on all existence, on the mind, on the life force and even on the physical body. The supramental transformation involves the integration of the supermind into human life, both individually and collectively.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Nature of Bhakti — the Yoga of Devotion

The path of devotion relies on the heart, not the mind. The seeker who is rooted in his mental process undergoes substantial efforts to achieve spiritual realisation, but may find that the ego-consciousness asserts itself as an arrogant pride of accomplishment, knowledge or understanding. As long as the ego-consciousness remains central to the being and its outlook, the spiritual consciousness of universal Oneness eludes the seeker. The practitioners of the yoga of devotion, bhakti yoga, have a different approach to the spiritual development.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Necessity of Transformation of Human Nature

For most of human existence, there has been a deep divergence between those who seek spiritual development and those who are focused on the material life in the world. In The Life Divine, Sri Aurobindo describes the two paths as ‘the refusal of the ascetic’ and ‘the materialist denial’. It would seem that either one must abandon the life in the world, and all its difficulties and imperfections, or one must give up on the attempt to gain spiritual wisdom and apply it.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

An Integral Yoga involves Knowledge, Devotion, Works and Self-Perfection

The integral yoga takes as its goal something far different than most of the individual yogic paths. The goal here is not liberation from the world, dissolution of the individual, or renunciation of action. Rather, the integral yoga calls for the liberation of the nature and the transformation of the human instrument to become a ready and receptive instrument of the divine action in the world. The ego-personality must be surrendered in order to create the necessary openness and responsiveness to the divine implementation.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Determining the Appropriate Posture for Beginning with Meditation

For someone beginning with meditation, every aspect of the process raises a question. One of these questions relates to the body. The eventual goal is to attain a state whereby meditation can occur regardless of what the body is doing or how it is positioned. However, this is not usually the way things start out. Sri Aurobindo responds on this point.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Immortality in this Body is Not the Transformation Sought by the Integral Yoga

The “fountain of youth”, the elixir of immortality, attaining ete al life… these are various ways the aspiration of humanity has found expression for the conquest of death. Some who take up the integral Yoga latch on to the eventual idea of the supramental transformation leading to immortality and believe that they will become immortal in this body in this life. Sri Aurobindo, however, has made it very clear that this does not represent his view of the matter.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Meaning of Faith

The mind is not an instrument of knowledge. It is an analytical and organising tool, but is unable, on its own, to establish truth or certainty. It also maintains a certain arrogance in its own powers, and thus, when confronted with something beyond its own capabilities, it doubts the veracity and asks for proof. Some things, however, cannot be proven to the satisfaction of the intellect; however, that does not disprove those things.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Role of Medicine in Treating Illness for the Practitioner of Yoga

The spiritual seeker often is confronted with a situation that seems to pit faith against medical science. The debate between religion and science goes back millennia and this is one small part of that larger debate. Those who are dedicated practitioners are asked to face all difficulties with faith in the Divine intervention protecting and supporting them. Therefore, they are asked to call upon the Divine when they face physical illness or challenges. For many this means they should not use medicine, consult doctors or take precautions such as immunizations against virulent diseases.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Path of the Integral Yoga

The integral yoga relies on the action of a force of consciousness beyond the mind-life-body complex under which we ordinarily function. This involves a self-exceeding beyond the normal framework. Thus, it cannot be accomplished purely by the action of those powers residing within that framework, the powers of the mind, the powers of the life-force, the powers of the body.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Yogic Equality Does Not Imply Fatalistic Acceptance

Attaining the proper poise of equality is an essential step for the yogic practitioner. It is quite easy to fall into a fatalistic view that basically says “what happened was what had to happen”, without further consideration about the process through time and the direction, momentum and amplitude of the energy of change that is in place. Without appreciating these dynamic elements, the seeker may find himself overwhelmed by the present circumstances and, then, the equality becomes a form of tamasic depression or a giving up of the effort.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Characteristics of the Body Consciousness

Imagine we had to manage all the functions of the body through conscious attention by the mind, telling the body how to operate each organ, controlling each breath and heartbeat, controlling the energy production activities in the cells, etc. It would be clearly impossible. We depend entirely on the separate consciousness of the body to carry out its automatic functioning and with a precision and control beyond anything we could accomplish with direct mental intervention.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Understanding the Defense Mechanism of Rationalization

We can clearly see the influence of the vital on the mind when we understand the lengths to which the mind will go to justify satisfaction of the needs, desires or actions of the vital nature. The defense mechanism of ‘rationalization’ is a clear example. We understand, intellectually, that something should not be done. In fact, if someone else were to do it, we would castigate them for the action. Yet, we find ourselves not only accepting, but justifying the action when our vital nature wants to do it (or has done it).

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Spiritual Growth

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“Yoga Made Easy?”

There is no way to achieve “instant” yogic realisation. There is no automatic technique, there is no pill one can take to suddenly become enlightened. The sages ensured that we understand the needed patience, persistence and efforts required in the various accounts of realised souls and how they achieved their realisations. The young boy who was asked to take two cattle to the forest and only return after the herd reached 1000 is a good example. Many years went by for this process, and much growth and learning had to occur to face and overcome all the difficulties.

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Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Nature and Experience of Cosmic Consciousness

Without experience, it is difficult to comprehend the difference between the normal human ego-consciousness and the cosmic consciousness. Those who have had the experience try to disclose the type and quality of their experience, but using human words that relate to our normal body-life-mind way of experiencing reality, they can at best only paint a general picture of what cosmic consciousness is.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Addressing Vital Interchange in the Context of Spiritual Practice

The normal human viewpoint in today’s world is one of separate individuality. We believe, based on that viewpoint, that we are free and independent and make our own choices exercising our free will. In actuality, however, this is not quite true. All relationships in society involve subtle vital interchanges, whether between individuals with one another, or in a larger scope of a situation, event or social setting.

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Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Creating Balance for the Physical Body as an Instrument of the Sadhana

When the mind is engaged in carrying out some idea, or the vital being is involved and enthusiastic about something, there is a strong tendency for the rise of Rajas in the being. Rajas has a tendency to overdo things, go beyond limits and as a result, it is the frequent cause of injury and the effects of over-straining or over-indulgence that fall on the physical body. This can lead to the rise of Tamas, when the enthusiasm wears off and the body is left exhausted and worn out.

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Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Greek Temperament and the Roman Temperament in the Practice of Yoga

We observe some individuals who have an obvious connection to the life-energy and who have a sensitivity and responsiveness to life that allows them to experience the fullness of life. We also observe individuals who appear more restrained, self-contained, and less subject to the life around them, who tend to reflect and analyze in order to understand and act. Each of these temperamental types has its own special and unique advantages, and disadvantages, for the yogic practitioner. Neither one represents the only temperament capable of achieving the result of the yogic practice.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Power of Affirmations in Healing the Body and Achieving Positive Results in Life

The Power of Affirmations in Healing the Body and Achieving Positive Results in Lifer Posted on August 13, 2022r

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Process of Bringing About Change at the Subconscious Level of Our Being

Anyone who has taken up the practice of meditation is familiar with the attempt to quiet the mind and not pay attention to thoughts that arise during the process, letting them drift through without being followed or amplified in any way. One quickly realises during the process that we tend to get ‘caught up’ in the thoughts and catch ourselves following them and have to bring ourselves back to the process of the meditation.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Contacting and Connecting With the Universal Vital Force, Part I

Children naturally have direct contact with the universal vital energy but this tends to fade into the background and be ‘lost’ as the mind ‘learns’ the ‘laws of nature’ which do not recognise the energy or its relationship to us. This is a circumstance of the artificially limiting action of the mind hindering the access to the larger reality of existence of which we are a part, and of which we partake at all times.

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Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Disturbances of the Vital Caused by Life-Changes, Negative and Positive

Some years ago we were witnesses to an event that clearly illustrated the disturbance to the vital that can be caused by a positive experience. In that case, a married couple were planning to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary and their extended family and friends were there to join the festivities, except for one daughter and her family who lived half a world away, and who were not expected. The day before the celebration, the daughter with family showed up at the doorstep.

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Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Relationship Among Sadhaks in an Ashram Community

The history of spiritual and religious communities has witnessed numerous approaches to interpersonal relationships. For the most part, monasteries, cloisters or ashrams have tried to focus the attention of their members by maintaining strict rules, in many cases including vows of silence, celibacy and prayers. Individuals who were tasked with being ‘in charge’ would frequently enforce these rules through harsh discipline, and the atmosphere would be one of austerity and somewhat frosty (or in some cases even hostile) interpersonal relationships as a result.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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Transition to a New Higher Standpoint of Consciousness Is the Basis of Achievement of the Cosmic Consciousness

Many people can identify the experience of suddenly receiving an intuition or inspired or illumined knowledge on occasion. Some experience such things relatively frequently. Where does this sudden illumination come from? How does it act upon us? Generally, the occasional intuition is recognised when it comes into the mind, vital or physical being and has a quality of ‘rightness’ and truth associated with it.

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Spiritual Growth

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Who Am I?

Sri Ramana Maharshi famously inquired into the question ‘who am I?’. Through constant self-examination with this question, the seeker begins to separate himself from the idea that he is the body, or the particular life-energy formation or mental sense that make up his exte al, surface personality and being. For most people, we look to the physical body as being ‘who we are’. When we bury someone in a graveyard, we go to visit our family, friend or relative and lay flowers on the grave and recount that we went to see that individual, even though the body has likely long since disintegrated!

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Spiritual Growth

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The Supramental Evolutionary Development Engages With, Rather Than Renounces, Life in the World

Much of the history of spirituality in the world is focused on achieving an inner, or subjective, realisation, and avoids addressing the outer life to any great degree. Most paths try to simplify the outer life. The intention is to avoid distractions that can take one away from the immense effort needed to achieve spiritual realisation or liberation.

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Spiritual Growth

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The Surrender of the Ego-Personality to the Divine

The ego-sense, in its attempt to be in control and glorify in its success, abhors the very idea of “surrender”. The connotation of the term in English is loaded with negative inferences, yet in other languages there are more subtle and deeper meanings to be unlocked. For instance, in Sanskrit, the term atmasamarpanam has the sense of self-offering. Similarly in German, self-surrender translates as ‘selbsthingabe’ which conveys a sense of dedication, commitment or self-offering.

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Spiritual Growth

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Desire — and the Need to Control Desire

People believe that suppression of the vital forces that are actuated by the force of desire can lead to imbalance and mental illness. For this reason, Western psychology has recommended the moderate expression of these forces, and has generally counseled having a healthy vital life that does not try to suppress the desires as they arise.

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Spiritual Growth

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